BY JEAN-LOUIS ROUVIÈRE, PARIS

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A Louis XVI ormolu and white-marble mantel clock
By Jean-Louis Rouvière, Paris
The circular white-enamelled Arabic dial signed Rouviere, the movement with silk-suspended pendulum and outside countwheel strike on a bell, within a drum case surmounted by an urn, on a scrolling vine support flanked to either side by a ram, on a shaped pediment with foliate frieze, on hairy paw feet and rectangular plinth base with beaded rim, on bun feet, restorations
48cm. high x 40cm. wide x 13cm. deep

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Lot Essay

A virtual similar mantel clock Pendule en bronze doré et patiné figurant un amour sortant d'un casque is illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopedie de La Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, p. 278, fig. A.

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